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The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The book contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, useful discussion questions, and a recommended reading list for every chapter. Emerging trends in theory and practice of international humanitarian law are also explored, allowing for readers to build on their knowledge, and grapple with some of the biggest challenges facing the law of armed conflict in the twenty-first century. This second edition offers new sections on issues like detention in non-international armed conflict, characterisation of non-international armed conflicts, expanded chapters on occupation and the protection of civilians, means and methods of warfare, and implementation, enforcement and accountability.

The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The book contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, useful discussion questions, and a recommended reading list for every chapter. Emerging trends in theory and practice of international humanitarian law are also explored, allowing for readers to build on their knowledge, and grapple with some of the biggest challenges facing the law of armed conflict in the twenty-first century. This second edition offers new sections on issues like detention in non-international armed conflict, characterisation of non-international armed conflicts, expanded chapters on occupation and the protection of civilians, means and methods of warfare, and implementation, enforcement and accountability.

Part I. Cultures of IH -- Chapter 1. Des-Encanto: Latin America and International Humanitarian Law -- Chapter 2. Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law -- Chapter 3. Prisoners of War, Taking of Hostages and the Colombian Armed Conflict: Challenges Arising Out of Conflictive Understandings of IHL by Different Actors in Particular Contexts -- Chapter 4. Read the Room: Legal and Emotional Literacy in Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations -- Part II. Focus Section: Samuel Moyn's Humane: How The United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021) -- Chapter 5. Wars with and for Humanity -- Chapter 6. The Peace Movement and Grassroots International Law -- Chapter 7. Emancipation, Humanity, and Peace: A Response -- Part III. Year in Review -- Chapter 8. Year in Review 2021 -- Table of Cases -- Index.

Intro -- Editorial Board -- Editorial -- Contents -- Part I Cultures of IHL -- 1 Des-Encanto: Latin America and International Humanitarian Law -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Situating Latin America in the History of the Laws of War -- 1.3 Criollo Law of War -- 1.4 Litigating the Laws of War -- 1.5 The Disenchantment of Latin America -- 1.6 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Progress and Promise -- 2.3 An Immanent Cult -- 2.4 The Limits of History -- 2.5 The Uses of History -- 2.5.1 Exogenous Uses -- 2.5.2 Endogenous Uses -- 2.6 Coming to Terms with Anxiety: From History to Social Memory -- 2.6.1 Formalist Anxieties -- 2.6.2 Anxieties of Conscience/Consciousness -- 2.6.3 Vows Renewed, Promises Deferred -- 2.6.4 Histories of Deferment and Exculpation -- 2.6.5 Achievement, Anxiety and Misconception -- 2.7 Conclusion: Re-historicising the Laws of War -- References -- 3 Prisoners of War, Taking of Hostages and the Colombian Armed Conflict: Challenges Arising Out of Conflictive Understandings of IHL by Different Actors in Particular Contexts -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Detentions by Non-state Armed Groups in NIAC in the Light of IHL: Three Dimensions of the Same Phenomenon -- 3.2.1 The Impossibility to Automatically Transfer IHL Regulations for POW to NIACs -- 3.2.2 The IHL Regulation Over the Moment of Retention by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.3 IHL Regulation on Conditions of Captivity by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.4 IHL Regulation on Liberation of Persons Deprived of Their Physical Liberty by Non-state Armed Groups -- 3.2.5 Conclusion to Sect. 3.2 -- 3.3 FARC-EP's Detention of Members of Colombian Military Forces: The Impact of the Participation of the Former Members of the FARC-EP Secretariat in the Delimitation of IHL.